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You should know that initializing a disk won't damage data, causing data loss problem at all. It's safe to initialize a disk to a normal state when it shows as unknown not initialized. To initialize a hard disk in Windows Disk Management: Step 1. Connect the uninitialized external hard drive, HDD or other storage devices to your PC. I recently came into possession of a 500GB Passport marked for Macintosh, needed to be repartitioned and formatted for use on Windows. If using on both Mac and Windows could use exFAT formatting. I have 2 WDC 4TB USB drives that came as exFAT, the packaging is marked as usable on both Mac and Windows. Try to initialize WD My Passport on Mac. If you have made a backup of WD My Passport or you don't care about the data on the drive, you can directly initialize the drive in Disk Utility. Step 1: Launch Disk Utility from Utilities. Step 2: Select the uninitialized WD My Passport on the left part of the window.
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I have a WD Passport 4 TB external drive connected via USB cable to my Mac. The WD external drive is partitioned into two, i.e., 2 TB each. Neither partition of the WD drive will perform backups via T read more. I recently came into possession of a 500GB Passport marked for Macintosh, needed to be repartitioned and formatted for use on Windows. If using on both Mac and Windows could use exFAT formatting. I have 2 WDC 4TB USB drives that came as exFAT, the packaging is marked as usable on both Mac and Windows.
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1. After connecting the drive to my Mac - USB directly into the computer - I powered up the Mac and got a dialogue box that said Initialize, Ignore or Eject - when I chose Initialize it opened the Mac's Disk Utility where you erase or partition the drive to be recognized - I tried to both erase and initialize the external - I erased the drive with no luck and then initialized the drive by selecting the drive from the sidebar and chose Partition (I saved it as a Mac Extended Journaled drive with 1 partiton) - but all I got was the spinning ball that would go on for as long as 15 minutes - After restart the Disk Utility recognized the external but it still didn't show on the desktop
2. I then booted up from my original Mac OS 9 CD and successfully initialized the drive - there were only two options for that - Mac Standard and Mac Extended - I chose extended - When I'm in boot up mode from the CD the external does show up on the desktop without any files on it so I assume that the computer does read the external - I opened the Drive Setup Utility and chose List of Drives where it lists the with Bus numbers - My Mac is is listed as Bus 2 while the external is 0 it also says the external is 'not supported' - There was also a yellow sticky like note in the upper corner of the computer that said 'Complete functionality of USB devices is not available from start up CD' so I feel there is something wrong there and initializing the external from the OS 9 CD did something bad - I'm currently trying to figure out if the jumper setting on the external is correct - there seems to be special instructions for the Mac in the WD drive literature - it recommends to set it as a slave configuration - also if the Bus setting is 0 does that mean it's not recognized or is not connected or is there a legitmate Bus setting of 0 - I don't know just a thought
3. When I restarted the Mac and opened up Disk Utility it takes a while to get started - it says gathering disk information - it finally loads about 7 minutes later but the only thing I get in the sidebar is my hard drive and no external - so it's not even showing up there anymore - so something happened when I initialized the external from the CD as it wont recognize it in the Disk Utility
Macintosh G4
CPU: 400 MHz
Mem: 576mb
Hard Drive: 19.1 G
Bus speed: 100MHz
8 years old
Mac OS X System 10.4.11
Western Digital internal drive in an external housing 115 Gig external drive